Coding Blackness: A History of Black Video Game Characters
Historically, whiteness has been regarded as the default, a privilege not afforded to people of color. Players of the games
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Can Video Games Be a Healthy Outlet for Stress Relief?
Video games have become an increasingly vital form of entertainment for many people over the course of the last year.
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The Woman Bulldozing Video Games’ Toughest DRM
For Empress, cracking titles like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Immortals Fenyx Rising is more than a pastime. It’s a
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The Video Games We’re Most Looking Forward to in 2021
This light-hearted, silly adventure seems to fuse person-to-person coordination, strategy, and reflexes—a welcome combination of things for folks who have
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The Real Pleasure and Pain of Making Choices in Video Games
It’s important to be invested in the story when playing a video game. Sure, there are absolutely times when it’s
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The Rise of One of the First Video Game Workers Unions
Online gaming culture had a track record of toxic culture, particularly the right-wing “Gamergate” movement, and that kind of culture
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Why Do Exploding Barrels Make Video Games So Much More Fun?
Too often game worlds can feel like static backdrops for gameplay. But by incorporating elemental reactions, developers bring complexity and
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Postapocalyptic Video Games Saved Me From Pandemic Despair
At the beginning of the pandemic, depressed from losing steady freelance work and my social life in the city, I promised
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The Video Games WIRED Loved Most in 2020
Yakuza: Like a Dragon feels like a PlayAtation 2 game, and I mean that in the nicest way possible. In
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The Biggest Video Game Surprise Hits of 2020
It’s been a year of surprises for us all. Not only did we kick off the spring with the coronavirus
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